KDE-Look has just completed our Distro Wallpaper Challenge. We are pleased at the level of involvement as we have seen 42 distro themed wallpapers submitted in just 11 days. The KDE-Look community voted for their favorite wallpaper for each distro. We had 12 winners and a ton (907,184.74 grams) of great new artwork.

Some highlights:

Click here to see the complete list of winners. Our next challenge will be posted Dec 1st.

Are there many svg backgrounds out there? With laptops, widescreen monitors and very large monitors becoming more and more common having the four common sizes (640,800,1024,1600) really doesn't cut it anymore.

The lack of non 4x3 wallpapers is definately becoming an issue (ignoring that 1280x1024 isn't 4x3 - 1280x960 is). Stretching things wider generally makes them look silly. Also, a number of flat screens now available can be rotated by 90 degrees. This is very nice for working on documents, but a 4x3 picture displayed in 3x4 is either too small or too stretched.

Maybe another alternative would be to keep the picture's aspect ratio, resize it to be at least as wide and as high as the screen, and clip the top/bottom or the sides - a sort of oversized maximise. I don't think KDE will do that automatically (I'm not at home now, so I can't check).

Ok, im a little oftopic here, but are there any plans to support html background with kwin. I mean real html not the plugin which transforms the url into a large image. It should be pretty easy to implement given the modular stucture of kde?